OCTOBER 21,1994 — THE DECREE — PAGE 3
COMING TO CAMPUS — Award-winning novelist Reynolds
price will read from his latest works, including his newly pub-
jished apocryphal gospel The Honest Account of a Memorial Life,
bn Wednesday, Oct 26, at 4:30 p.m. in the SAC.
Women Assembly
to meet at Wesleyan
'By CECILIA LYNN CASEY
>
North Carolina Wesleyan Col
lege will host the fifth bi-annual
meeting of North Carolina Eq-
jjity Women’s Assembly in the
Student Activities Center on
Monday.
‘ Local women’s groups will
^eet to talk about what the NC.
state legislature should set as their
priorities.
' > A handbill printed by N.C.
^quity explains that “Every two
years,* N.C. Equity sponsors
dounty-wide Assemblies for
women to voice their concerns
and learn about the concerns of
other women. Each Assembly
di-eates an Agenda which reflects
its priorities.”
^ The Agenda that will be dis
cussed Monday will include is-
sbes of economic development,
Ijousing, child care, violence, and
health care.
A press release issued by N.C.
Equity states, “Over 1,600 North
. Carolinians from over 80 organi
zations are expected to meet this
f&l in almost 40 events to idei): .
Price to read his works
next week on campus
tify, discuss, and rank issues and
public policy alternatives likely
to affect women. Women in each
local area will respond to a Draft
Women’s Agenda generated by
policy experts in many areas.
“The Women’s Agenda Pro-
granW^B8ft^iWWE»iity, a
private, non-profit organization
which develops public policy
strategies and advocates for
women on economic, social, and
health issues,” it noted.
N.C. Equity is funded by the
Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation,
the Rockefeller Family Fund, and
other foundations, as well as the
contributions of individuals and
corporations.”
There will be a $5 registration
fee and all those interested in at
tending will need to register by
Friday, Oct. 21. A light supper
will be served before discussions
are started.
Both Betty Anne Whisnant
and Carolyn >^tener will be able
to provide mdre information and
registration forms for all those
whQ,^e,int«este{l.
Award-winning novelist
Reynolds Price will read from his
latest works next Wednesday at
4:30 p.m. in the Student Activi
ties Center, including a new “gos
pel” account of the life of Jesus
published today by North Caro
lina Wesleyan College.
In the spring of 1993, Price
was teaching a seminar at Duke
University on the gospels of Mark
and John. At mid-term as they
prepared to write final seminar
papers — he and the students
were each to write a new apocry
phal gospel — a conmion set of
sources had to be agreed upon.
They were free to use the four
canonical gospels, the Acts of the
Apostles, the undisputed letters
of Paul, and those other New Tes
tament letters which may at least
have originated in the first gen
eration of men and women who
knew Jesus of Nazareth.
“A reader may wonder why I
set such a task when we already
have four impressive gospels, two
of which stand a good chance of
proceeding directly or at only sec
ondhand from eye-witnesses,”
Price wrote later. “The simplest
answer — and one that has lain
behind the thousands of attempts
on Jesus that have crowded li
braries for the past two millennia
— is that the life and its effect on
history are so magnetic in their
mystery as to demand ceaseless
watch and question.”
Thus evolved Price’s apocry
phal gospel. The Honest Account
of Memorial Life. It retells the
life of Jesus with the stories of
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
set side-by-side in a single har
monious account.
In The Honest Account, Price
tells the story of Jesus’ life as a
20th century novelist would, rec
reating the “feel” of the experi
ence in sensuous details. He de
picts the sights, sounds, and
smells of the scene, so that the
reader experiences all of this as it
happens.
Price, recent winner of the
Prairie Schooner Award for ex
cellence in writing, has also re
ceived superlative reviews for A
Whole New Life (Atheneum
1994), the story of his war with
cancer of the spine, diagnosed ten
years ago.
Since the diagnosis, he has ex
perienced an outpouring of work.
In addition to many celebrated
novels, he’s written short stories,
poems, plays, and screenplays.
Price has been praised for his
fiction since he won the William
Faulkner Foundation Award for
his first novel, A Long and Happy
Life, in 1962. More than 30 pro
lific years have followed (with a
National Book Critics Circle
Award for Kate Vaiden in 1986),
but Pnce admits to writing as
much in the past 10 years in his
battle against time as he has writ
ten in all the rest of the years put
together.
“I am deUghted that this rush
of work has come,” he says, “but
I can’t explain how it has hap
pened. This inspiration comes
mysteriously, rapidly... if I tried
to explain or define this inspira
tion I am afraid that it might van
ish.”
The Student Government
Association Heeds YOU!
There are still jobs
to do that need en
thusiastic people. If
you are interested,
please contact an
SGA member at ext.
5225!
The Student Services Center
Oct. 24 - Nov. 4
Monday, Oct 24
10:20 a.m.
Freshman Pre-Registration Workshop
Room 105
10:30 a.m.
Memory Tips
Room 189
Tuesday,Oct 25
2:40 p.m.
Freshman Pre-Registratin Workshop
Room 105
Wednesday, Oct 26
4 p.m.
Interviewing Skills Workshop
Room 276
Monday, Oct 31
10:30 a.m.
Studying Smarter
Room 189
Tuesday, Nov. 1
JOB FAIR, Holiday Inn, Goldsboro
Friday, Nov. 4
END OF SECOND INTERIM GRADING PERIOD
All freshmen must attend ONE of the Freshmen Pre-Registration Workshops!
If you are trying to decide upon a career or major, the Student Service Center
can help. Call 985-5131 for more information.
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schools. Stop by Room 190 and “check it out”!